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Carlsbad depositary- 79% of waste came from nuclear wastes from Idaho National Laboratory

Hundreds of shipments of nuclear waste were buried at a facility near
Carlsbad in 2024, and the federal government was poised to send even more
waste to the site in 2024. For that work, the Department of Energy’s
contractor Salado Isolation Mining Contractors (SIMCO) earned about $11.5
million or about 89% of its available $13 million fee between Feb. 4, 2023
when SIMCO took over the contract and the end of the last federal fiscal
year on Sept. 30, 2023.

DOE records show 479 shipments of transuranic (TRU)
nuclear waste were received at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant between Jan.
1 and Dec. 31, 2023, from federal labs and other nuclear facilities around
the U.S. TRU waste is made of clothing materials, equipment and other
debris irradiated during nuclear activities, and it is buried in a salt
deposit at WIPP about 2,000 feet underground. The DOE said in 2023 it
worked to increase shipments to 17 per week, and hold that level in the
coming years. Most of the waste, about 79%, came from Idaho National
Laboratory in the form of 377 waste shipments.

 Carlsbad Current-Argus 7th Jan 2024

https://eu.currentargus.com/story/news/local/2024/01/07/carlsbad-area-repository-is-disposing-of-mostly-idaho-nuclear-waste/72096824007/

January 9, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes